Joy Onukogu

Joy Onukogu is the Owner /Therapist of Ngozi Counseling LLC. Joy provides individual, couples, and group counseling services in office or virtually.

Joy is also a trained Prenatal and Postpartum Doula and received her training at Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson. She is passionate about working with black pregnant women and moms, as well as youth. Her educational background includes a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Webster University, and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Social Work from Southeast Missouri State University.

Joy’s work experience includes individual, family, and group counseling at local agencies and clinics, within a private practice setting, and within school-based settings working with preschool through 12th-grade youth. She has worked with parents, teens, and young adults. Her clinical interests and specializations include family issues, depression, anxiety, anger management, grief and loss, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, crisis intervention, physical and sexual abuse, trauma, and working with adolescents.